Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, which are generally perceived as ones suffered by young women, have also been found among many middle-aged and older women. Eating disorders have often developed when young girls go on diets at puberty.
Recently, however, an increasing number of middle-aged and older women, such as the 50-year-old woman, suffer from eating disorders. (Yomiuri)
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A 37-year-old woman diagnosed with premature menopause had a baby boy earlier this month from an egg grown through the administration of a hormonal agent, her doctors said Saturday.St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, stirred the formation of ovarian follicles by administering the hormonal agent to pick up eggs from it, and grew them using culture fluid for external fertilization. (Japan Times)
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A human torso was found Sunday at a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture near the site where the head of a missing 19-year-old woman from neighboring Shimane Prefecture has been found, the police said. A joint investigation squad of the Shimane and Hiroshima prefectural police said they believe the undressed torso belonged to Miyako Hiraoka, a first-year student at the University of Shimane, who went missing after finishing her shift at a part-time job on the evening of Oct. 26. (Japan Times)
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The number of men who have died under suspicious circumstances possibly linked to a Tottori Prefecture woman arrested last week over a fraud case has reached six, investigative sources said Saturday. Investigators have found that a prefectural police officer found hanged in February 2007 was an acquaintance of a 35-year-old woman at the center of a series of recently reported deaths. (Japan Times)
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A female cancer patient in her 60s in Kagoshima Prefecture and a 38- year-old woman in Hyogo Prefecture with no apparent underlying illness died early Saturday, becoming the sixth and seventh deaths in Japan linked to the new H1N1 strain of influenza A. (AP)
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